The Nook Color has been rooted

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31 pointsukdm7 comments

allowing your device to be hacked just builds interest and therefore sales of the hardware

I suspect that $250 price tag is the result of selling the hardware at a loss. If people buy them and don't use the locked-in book purchasing features enough, B&N loses money. They have an incentive to actively prevent rooting.

Nah, $250 is believable. Compared to the iPad, the specs are lower, which means cheaper chips, and the screen is about half the size, and not IPS.

Actually the screen is IPS. 1024x600 resolution.

Even if this is the case, the percentage of people who would buy such a device just to tinker with it is going to be relatively small, at least if the product becomes reasonably successful. Take into account that this is Hacker News and we're a bit biased here.

Does anyone know if you'll be able to run Adobe Flash 10.1 without rooting the machine?

This[0] says that it is not currently possible.

0: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Barnes-and-Nobl...

"Although Nook Color won’t support Flash at launch"

I see, thanks.

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